Elizabeth Berkley | |
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 Berkley in 2016 | |
| Born | |
| Other names | Elizabeth Berkley Lauren |
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| Years active | 1986–present |
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| Children | 1 |
| Awards | NBR Award for Best Cast 1996 The First Wives Club |
Elizabeth Berkley is an American actress and producer. She played Jessie Spano in the Saved by the Bell television franchise and Nomi Malone in the 1995 Paul Verhoeven controversial film Showgirls. She had supporting roles in the box office hits The First Wives Club and Oliver Stone’s Any Given Sunday, as well as in Woody Allen’s period comedy The Curse of the Jade Scorpion and Dylan Kidd’s critically acclaimed Roger Dodger.
On television, she played Julia Winston in CSI: Miami (2008-2009), Kelly Wentworth in The L Word (2009), Shannon Titus in Titus (2001-2002) and in 2020 she reprised the role of Jessie Spano in the Saved by the Bell reboot on Peacock, for which she also served as a producer. In theatre, she appeared opposite Eddie Izzard in Peter Hall’s West End production of Lenny and also in the successful Broadway comedic play Sly Fox and the acclaimed Off-Broadway production of Hurlyburly, for which she received critical acclaim.[1] She also hosted Bravo's talent show Step It Up and Dance and in 2011 she published the New York Times best-seller Ask-Elizabeth, a self-help book for adolescent girls, which drew from the workshops she conducted for her Ask-Elizabeth program.
For Saved by the Bell she earned four Young Artist Award nominations and in 1996 she received a National Board of Review award for the ensemble acting in First Wives Club. In 2011 Candie’s Foundation honoured her with a prize for her work raising awareness about the risks and hardships associated with teen pregnancy.
- ^ Isherwood, Charles (June 19, 2005). "The Redemption of Elizabeth Berkley". The New York Times. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved November 12, 2020.